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1. is there a word for “tourist trap” in Japanese?

2. https://ibb.co/4fFnxMJ

   A man is subduing a stabber and says 同じ敵を何度も踏むわけねえだろうが. I am not sure what it is supposed to mean. “There’s no way I will step on the same enemy many times”? For context, this man failed to subdue the stabber in the past.

3. What is the structure to say “In (place) you can (do something)”. For example, “In the library, you can study and read books”.

   And how would it be for the negative form? For example, “You can’t smoke in a hospital” or “You can’t eat in the library, but you can drink water”?

   I’m studying N4 right now by myself and I’m really struggling with this one :/

4. My birth city is called Vizag. According to Wikipedia, in katakana, it seems to be written as バイザック, instead of バイザッグ. Any ideas why?

5. Dont understand these quartet 1 chapter 3 dialogue 1 留学生のための富士登山ガイド sentences

   1. ２０１３年に世界文化遺産に登録されたため、外国からの登山客も多くなってきています

   Confused with the 多くなってきています, is this saying:

   “Due to registering to the world cultural heritage In 2013, even mountain climbers from foreign countries became lots(多くなって?) and come(きています?) to Mt fuji”. ?

   2.登山ルートは全部で４つあり、歩く距離や難しさなどがルートによって違います

   Dont understand this sentence because of the “がルート”. If the sentence didnt have that id understand this as: “In total there are 4 mountain climbing routes and depending on walking distance or difficulty, etc, theyre different”

   3. 登る人が最も多い「吉田ルート」では、山頂まで約６時間かかります。

   What does 最も多い mean? sounds like “most lots of” to me.

   “On Fushida route, the climbing people most lots of take about 6 hours to the summit “?

6. How do you know when you are reading something correctly?

   I like the duolingo Japanese app because I can check if what I am reading is what the text says, because I can hear the sentences that I read.

   I have looked at all the resources and have found some Zero level reading resources… But I cannot know if what I am reading is correct. For example, this .pdf:

   [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dSSvUb__gtjKHHsen1t0MGrxmnHi0N7h/view?pli=1](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dSSvUb__gtjKHHsen1t0MGrxmnHi0N7h/view?pli=1)

   How can I practice reading with this, as recommended, if I can’t check anything on it? How do you do this?

   Sorry if it’s a stupid question.

7. Hi! In dragon ball there’s a technique called 身勝手の極意. Since 身勝手 is a na-adjective, why isn’t it called 身勝手な極意 instead? What’s the difference? Thank you!

8. Why is there no entry for 食道街 on jisho.org? I’m guessing it’s not a word. But then what is it? https://www.instagram.com/p/C_en8bwTZId/?igsh=N3k0endlejRjZmdn

9. Could I get a correct for the following text please?

   「海外の男性は結婚への考えが変わってきました。アメリカやイギリスでは「結婚いらない」や「しなくていい」という考え方が波及している。なぜかというと僕たちにはメリットがないからです。むしろ、いずれ妻に離婚されるリースクがかなり高いので、そもそも結婚する意味なんてないのではないかと。」

   Is my usage of むしろ and てくる correct here here?

   1。考えが変わっている

   2。考えが変わってきた

   3。考えが変わってきてる　

   What’s the difference in nuance here?

   Also, if you have any suggestions I. How I can make this sound softer, could you please let me know.

10. Hello, I am interested in studying through Anki. I had an idea for vocab/sentence card structure and wanted to know if it seems efficient or not.

    The idea is the front would have the word I’m trying to learn and the back will have the context in which the word is used. For example if the front had 今日 the back could have _は 木曜日です (and if I didn’t know what the reading for Thursday was, I could include the furigana for it). And this structure would be what does x kanji look in a sentence. Whereas another card structure is to have the word at the front, and on the back it would be the definition/description of it or something like that.

    I’m guessing I should have cards which help me learn what sort of contexts the word is used as well having a card which tells me about the word?

11. Why do people say not to learn Kanji in isolation? Can’t you learn all the pronunciations by remembering the onyomi and kunyomi and have a better understanding of the meaning of words by remembering the meaning of the kanji in isolation?

    For example 水 (water) (みず) (すい)

    Say I study this alone and then come into contact with the following:

    水 = みず Water

    水曜日 = すい Wednesday (Named after mercury, which was called the water planet, so it makes sense that it uses that kanji and grants you a deeper meaning by knowing the kanji in isolation?)

    水着 = みずぎ” Literally water suit

    Why is it bad to know the meaning of kanji in isolation?